Bundesliga 2022/23 - [6. Spieltag] - 9-11th September 2022

[Michael]

Suat Serdar equalises for Hertha Berlin, moments after Demirbay had given Leverkusen the lead with an accurate and powerful free-kick which found the top hand corner of the net.

Hertha Berlin 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen

[Michael]

Kramaric has given Hoffenheim the lead over Mainz with an acrobatic volley, after the ball found it's way towards him from the left flank. Kramaric's shot was powerful and accurate, great goal.

Hoffenheim 1-0 Mainz

[Azeem]

Germany has not progressed further than England in last two major tournaments neither has beaten them in last two matches. 

[Michael]

Promel extends Hoffenheim's lead with a deflected shot after the ball was laid off to him from Baumgartner. 

Hoffenheim 2-0 Mainz

[Michael]

2 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

Germany has not progressed further than England in last two major tournaments neither has beaten them in last two matches. 

Germany stuck to the same manager for way too long. This had a significant influence on their performances.

[nudge]

4 minutes ago, Beelzebub said:

Germany has not progressed further than England in last two major tournaments neither has beaten them in last two matches. 

 

[Michael]

Richter gives Hertha the lead with a long range dipping effort of a shot that was unstoppable! Great goal that by Richter!

Hertha Berlin 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen

[Michael]

Leverkusen equalise through Schick!

Hertha Berlin 2-2 Bayer Leverkusen

[Michael]

Haidara scores RB Leipzig's 3rd goal! RB Leipzig have spanked Dortmund this afternoon, I had a strong feeling they would win, but I didn't think it would be this convincingly.

RB Leipzig 3-0 Dortmund

[Michael]

Dabbur scored Hoffenheim's 3rd goal but a minute later, Kohr pulled a goal back for Mainz.

Hoffenheim 3-1 Mainz

[Michael]

Guirassy equalises for Stuttgart in injury time against Bayern! It looks like Bayern will draw their 3rd consecutive Bundesliga match!

Bayern Munich 2-2 Stuttgart

[nudge]

Very nice. Hopefully Union and Freiburg win their matches tomorrow.

[Michael]

Kaderabek scores Hoffenheim's 4th goal against 10 man Mainz.

Hoffenheim 4-1 Mainz

[Tommy]

Hehehehe, nice one, Stuttgart. 

[Stan]

This Schalke/Bochum match is loving up to the low expectations held before the game started... 

[Tommy]

5 minutes ago, Stan said:

This Schalke/Bochum match is loving up to the low expectations held before the game started... 

They will find a way that they both lose somehow. 

[Stan]

Goal Schalke! 

Poor goalkeeping from the Bochum keeper. Shot goes straight at him, bounces out and Drexler scores the rebound. 

[Stan]

Equaliser for Bochum. Incorrectly disallowed on the pitch but VAR reviews it and gives the goal! 1-1.

[Viva la FCB+]

Tough ref decisions but all where correct in the end. Stuttgart probably deserved a draw in the end, fair play to them in how they came out in the second half in particular. A little disappointing I think we dropped off way too deep and stopped attacking in the second half. Lots of rotation but that shouldnt be an excuse the squad was definitely good enough today.

[SchalkeUK]

Interesting to read this weekend's comments - I tend to feel a little similar to nudge after both performances were dreadful.  Our man seems unable to remove the garbage that is giving us problems by picking the same useless players again and again - very much in the 'Tedesco' style of management.  Bochum were not very good and any decent team would have done what Bayern did to them - the fact that we managed to scrape 3 points out of the game is simply covering up the basic problems and they are not being addressed - e.g. Bulter is playing every game with the wrong shirt on - his errors and lack of ability to pass even the simplest ball is frightening. Thiaw and Harit have gone  - why?

My visit in October now means that I will not be able to see the game - I have a Friday Night Civic Dinner - now the game has been fixed for Friday - probably they could be doing me a favour!!!  As I am staying over the weekend perhaps I might get chance to see the Sunday noon game at Fortuna - any thoughts Tommy????

[nudge]

2 minutes ago, SchalkeUK said:

Thiaw and Harit have gone  - why?

Because you can't afford their wages, simple as. 

[SchalkeUK]

Perhaps if we were not paying too many useless members of the squad high wages we could have managed - but that's another story!  Perhaps someone who can actually talk to and respect the decent players would be a good start. You (nudge) more than most know how it feels to see your best young guys leaving due to lack of conversations behind the closed doors!!

[nudge]

1 minute ago, SchalkeUK said:

Perhaps if we were not paying too many useless members of the squad high wages we could have managed - but that's another story!  Perhaps someone who can actually talk to and respect the decent players would be a good start. You (nudge) more than most know how it feels to see your best young guys leaving due to lack of conversations behind the closed doors!!

Harit was Schalke's top earner, with anual salary of 5.5 million €! That's just mental, and there's absolutely no way Schalke could have realistically afford it, especially now after losing out on Gazprom's money. Even clubs in a much better financial situation are not willing to pay that much; and as you probably well know, it was the reason why you struggled to find a new buying club for him... Even now that he joined Marseille on loan again, Schalke are still paying 2 million € of his annual salary... 

[Tommy]

Freiburg vs. Gladbach is a very good game so far, despite being goalless. Both teams play a very direct style, which is quite entertaining. 

[Stan]

How embarrassing can you get

Not even close!